Re: Link to files stored in data directory

2010-03-09 Thread Joel
Thanks Mike! FileApp and forward did the trick. I ended up storing my user- uploaded files in a subdirectory (files) of my Pylons project root directory. And I added my own authentication decorators to both the view() and retrieve() actions of FileController so that unauthenticated guests

Re: Link to files stored in data directory

2010-03-09 Thread Mike Orr
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Joel jrwdun...@gmail.com wrote: My one reservation is that I don't really understand the routes configuration that you suggested:  # Route  map.connect(file, /my_url/{path:.*}, controller=mycontroller, action=my_action) But that's understandable seeing as I

Link to files stored in data directory

2010-03-07 Thread Joel
Hey Pylons people, I'm trying to add file upload functionality to a Pylons project and I'm following the Pylons Book example in chapter 6. Uploading the file to a subdirectory ('uploads') of the data directory works fine. Following the example, I set the permanent_store variable in

Re: Link to files stored in data directory

2010-03-07 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
i store the files into a top-level directory called user_uploads ( ie. on the same level as data and public ) i do this, only because i find it easier to handle backups / redundancy when the images are 'public', i have a symlink from public/_img/NAME into that directory. just to note, i never

Re: Link to files stored in data directory

2010-03-07 Thread Mike Orr
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Mike Orr sluggos...@gmail.com wrote: def my_action(self, path, environ, start_response): Ignore the last two arguments. They were needed in older versions of Pylons before the 'forward' utility existed. -- Mike Orr sluggos...@gmail.com -- You received this